An attempt is made to share the truth regarding issues concerning Israel and her right to exist as a Jewish nation. This blog has expanded to present information about radical Islam and its potential impact upon Israel and the West. Yes, I do mix in a bit of opinion from time to time.

18.
White House wants to press for release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl; The
secret battles between US forces and Chechen terrorists

19. Afghan ethnic tensions rise in media and politics

20. Ukraine puts 'extremists' on notice after deadly clashes

21. Germany arrests man suspected of busting Iran sanctions

22. Norwegian charged with Syrian terror offenses

23.
The British female terror groupies queuing up to marry jihad fighters
in Syria; Police search home of Manchester man believed to have been
killed in Syria; British jihadist warns life is hard in Syria and
hundreds return to UK

24.
Killers of Lee Rigby set to be handed full-life sentences after Appeal
Court judges rule life CAN mean life for Britain's most notorious
murderers

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(CNN)
-- The U.S. government has warned airlines to pay particular attention
to the possibility of terrorists attempting to hide explosives in shoes,
a result of new intelligence, according to two people familiar with the
situation. The officials stressed there is no specific threat or known
plot. Intelligence collected by the United States and other countries
has indicated terror groups have been working on new shoe-bomb designs,
the sources said Wednesday. That knowledge prompted the Department of
Homeland Security to warn airlines to be on the lookout for explosives
hidden in shoes on flights from overseas to the United States, they
said. A separate intelligence official underscored the warning was
issued out of a sense of heightened caution…

A
senior al-Qaeda figure with close ties to the terrorist group's current
leader has left Iran, where he had lived for years after fleeing
American forces in Afghanistan in 2001, according to former and current
U.S. intelligence officials. Thirwat Shihata is the latest terrorist
suspect to leave Iran, raising questions about the country's motives for
allowing or forcing the departure of a string of al-Qaeda members that
it had sheltered over the past decade. U.S. officials said that
Shihata, a 53-year-old Egyptian, was the deputy of Ayman al-Zawahiri,
al-Qaeda's current leader, when he ran Egyptian Islamic Jihad before it
formally joined forces with Osama bin Laden in 1998…

Iranian Hacking to Test NSA Nominee Michael Rogers

Infiltration of Navy Computer Network More Extensive Than Previously Thought

WASHINGTON—Iran's
infiltration of a Navy computer network was far more extensive than
previously thought, according to officials, and the officer who led the
response will likely face questions about it from senators weighing his
nomination as the next head of the embattled National Security
Agency. It took the Navy about four months to finally purge the hackers
from its biggest unclassified computer network, according to current
and former officials. Some lawmakers are concerned about how long it
took. When Vice Adm. Michael Rogers, President Barack Obama's choice for
the new NSA director, faces his confirmation hearing, some senators are
expected to ask whether there is a long-term plan to address security
gaps exposed by the attack, congressional aides said. The hearing hasn't
been scheduled yet, but could be next month…

SANAA,
Yemen — Abd al-Wahhab al-Humayqani has some advice for Washington. The
United States is doing more to stoke terrorism, here in the heartland
of al-Qaeda's most active franchise, than to defeat it, he says. What
the United States ought to do, he argues, is strengthen Yemen's state
institutions — rather than create enemies by carrying out drone
strikes. "The U.S. can protect itself by cooperating directly with
local authorities," he said in an interview in Yemen's capital. Take it
from a man who might know. In December, the U.S. Treasury Department
branded Humayqani, 42, a specially designated global terrorist, freezing
his assets and sanctioning anyone who does business with him. The
Treasury accused Humayqani of using his network of ­Yemen-based
charities to funnel money to al-Qaeda, placing him "at the center of
global support networks that fund and facilitate terrorism." The
Treasury said that as of 2012, Humayqani was "an important figure"
within one of the terrorist group's most dangerous wings, al-Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula, and that he had helped to orchestrate violent
attacks on government targets and to recruit fighters. Humayqani denies
all of it. He said his charities benefit "orphans, mosques and poor
families," not al-Qaeda. "My personal stance is against al-Qaeda
operations, because they kill outside the law," he said…

New
York — A US judge on Wednesday delayed by one week until March 3 the
New York terror trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and former
Al-Qaeda spokesman, Suleiman Abu Ghaith. The delay is to allow the
defense time to collect testimony from the self-declared mastermind of
the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is held at Guantanamo
Bay. Abu Ghaith's lawyer Stanley Cohen requested a 45-day delay but
federal judge Lewis Kaplan sided with government prosecutors who argued
that an extra week would be enough… Mohammed is to receive written
questions on Friday and needs at least four days to respond, though it
is unclear how long any security clearance would take, Cohen said. Abu
Ghaith's trial had been due to start on Monday. The 48-year-old Kuwaiti
is charged with conspiracy to kill Americans, conspiracy to provide
support to terrorists and providing support to terrorists…

Lawyers
for a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden moved closer on Thursday to being
able to use Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described architect of the
Sept. 11 terror attacks, as a defense witness to rebut the government's
terrorism case against their client, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. At the same
time, a government request to allow a cooperating witness to testify
under a pseudonym was rejected by the trial judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, at a
hearing in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The bid to obtain Mr.
Mohammed's testimony would originally have required one of Mr. Abu
Ghaith's lawyers to travel to the United States naval base at Guantánamo
Bay, Cuba, where Mr. Mohammed is being held and is to be tried before a
military commission. Mr. Abu Ghaith's lead lawyer, Stanley L. Cohen,
had indicated that Mr. Mohammed had given his consent to be interviewed,
but on the condition that no government lawyer be present during the
questioning, a demand the government apparently refused. A prosecutor,
John P. Cronan, said in court that the government had "gone to great
lengths" to give a defense lawyer access to Mr. Mohammed under
conditions that it believed were "absolutely necessary."…

Deal reached to allow Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to testify

Lawyers
for the government and an Al Qaeda suspect facing trial in New York
agree to allow written questions to be submitted to Mohammed with the
government allowed to screen out classified material.Los Angeles Times February 14, 2014 Friday By Richard A. Serrano

…
If government national security officials clear those replies, that
could lead to highly dramatic testimony from Mohammed during the New
York trial of Sulaiman abu Ghaith, possibly through a closed-circuit
feed or videotape from Guantanamo Bay. The complex turn of events came
after Mohammed agreed to help the legal defense of Abu Ghaith, who is
charged with criminal conspiracy in connection with the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. Mohammed faces a U.S. military trial at the prison
compound in Cuba, charged with capital murder on suspicion of plotting
the attacks…

A
Manhattan man will serve 16 years in prison as part of a plea agreement
reached Wednesday in a rare terrorism case brought by state
prosecutors. The case against Jose Pimentel, 29 years old, was
criticized by his defense attorneys as being so problematic that federal
authorities chose to pass on it. Mr. Pimentel faced a potential life
sentence if convicted at trial, set to start next week. He pleaded
guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon as a crime of
terrorism. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office deal calls for 16
years in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release. Mr. Pinentel
will be formally sentenced to the term by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge
Thomas Farber on March 25. He has already served two years. Prosecutor
Deborah Hickey said that if he went to trial, she would have proven Mr.
Pimentel built a pipe bomb and was making others. The targets, Ms.
Hickey said, were soldiers returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
recruiting stations, the New York Police Department, Jews and "in
general a civilian population whom he described often as collateral
damage."…

SAN
FRANCISCO — In the last year, Eastern European cybercriminals have
stolen Brian Krebs's identity a half dozen times, brought down his
website, included his name and some unpleasant epithets in their malware
code, sent fecal matter and heroin to his doorstep, and called a SWAT
team to his home just as his mother was arriving for dinner. "I can't
imagine what my neighbors think of me," he said dryly.nnMr. Krebs, 41,
tries to write pieces that cannot be found elsewhere. His widely read
cybersecurity blog, Krebs on Security, covers a particularly dark corner
of the Internet: profit-seeking cybercriminals, many based in Eastern
Europe, who make billions off pharmaceutical sales, malware, spam,
frauds and heists like the recent ones that Mr. Krebs was first to
uncover at Adobe, Target and Neiman Marcus… Mr. Krebs — a former
reporter at The Washington Post who taught himself to read Russian while
jogging on his treadmill and who blogs with a 12-gauge shotgun by his
side — is so entrenched in the digital underground that he is on a
first-name basis with some of Russia's major cybercriminals. Many call
him regularly, leak him documents about their rivals, and try to bribe
and threaten him to keep their names and dealings off his blog…

Homeland
Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of
a plan by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to seek a
national license plate tracking system. The order came in the wake of a
story by The Washington Post reporting that ICE last week solicited
proposals from companies to compile a database of license plate
information from commercial and law enforcement tag readers. The idea
behind the national license-plate recognition database, which would have
drawn data from readers that scan the tags of every vehicle crossing
their paths, was to help catch fugitive illegal immigrants, according to
a DHS solicitation. But the plan raised concerns that the movements of
ordinary citizens who are under no criminal suspicion could be
scrutinized…

The
Department of Homeland Security wants a private company to provide a
national license-plate tracking system that would give the agency access
to vast amounts of information from commercial and law enforcement tag
readers, according to a government proposal that does not specify what
privacy safeguards would be put in place…

LAS
VEGAS—A Henderson, Nevada man has been indicted by a federal grand jury
for aiming a laser pointer at a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
Department (LVMPD) helicopter on six occasions during January and
February 2014, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for
the District of Nevada…

OTTAWA
and TORONTO - Irving Oil has become the first Canadian refiner to phase
out the older crude-oil rail cars that have been involved in several
fiery derailments, including last summer's deadly accident in
Lac-Mégantic, Que. The company said Monday it will complete the upgrade
of its fleet of rail cars to new, tougher standards by April 30 and
will require that all of its suppliers do the same by the end of the
year. Safety experts and regulators have long acknowledged that the
ubiquitous tank cars, known as DOT-111s, are prone to rupture and spills
during accidents. But the cars remain the workhorse of the industry,
making up roughly 85 per cent of the 92,000 fuel tankers in use across
North America…

Updated,
8:42 p.m. | Consider it the Wall Street equivalent of a no-fly list.
Banks are barred from doing business with countries that the United
States government has blacklisted, like Cuba and Iran. Yet BNP Paribas,
the largest French bank, is the latest global financial giant to face
suspicions of violating that rule. When it announced its annual earnings
results on Thursday, the bank disclosed that it had set aside $1.1
billion to settle investigations into potential sanctions violations,
fines that would stem from a federal investigation that has swept into
Europe and ensnared some of the Continent's biggest banks, including
HSBC and Barclays. For BNP Paribas, the investigations are playing out
on several fronts. According to people briefed on the investigation, the
Justice Department in Washington is working alongside the United States
attorney's office in Manhattan, the Federal Reserve and an arm of the
Treasury Department. The bank is also being scrutinized by New York
authorities, including Benjamin M. Lawsky, the state's financial
regulator, and Cyrus Vance, the Manhattan district attorney…

WASHINGTON
– The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC) today designated Colombian national Fernain Rodriguez
Vasquez as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker under the Foreign
Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act). OFAC also designated
seven other individuals and five entities in Colombia who acted for or
on behalf of Rodriguez Vasquez and provided support to his narcotics
trafficking activities, often in collaboration with the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and Mexico's Los Zetas and Sinaloa drug
cartels... For a chart relating to today's actions see …

12. Canada Budget 2014: Charities that accept donations from states that sponsor terrorism will have registrations revoked

Charities
that accept donations from states that sponsor terrorism such as Iran
and Syria will have their registration revoked under new rules
introduced in Tuesday's federal budget.n The measure appears to be an
attempt to stop Iran and other foreign governments from interfering in
Canada's domestic affairs by bankrolling charities that promote their
agendas. Under the new system, Ottawa could refuse charity status to
groups funded by a government that supports terrorism "or from an agency
of such a state," according to the budget document. It would apply to
donations from countries designated by Canada as sponsors of terror
under the State Immunity Act. So far Iran and Syria are the only two
nations on the list, which was created in 2012. Ray Boisvert, a former
senior Canadian counter-terrorism official, said the impact of the
policy would likely be narrow but that it could help constrain some
activities, particularly by cultural and religious groups linked to
Iran. Iran is a major state sponsor of terrorist groups, notably
Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite group that has long raised money in
Canada through organized crime and front organizations…

OTTAWA
— The RCMP is investigating a local Passport Canada intelligence
officer who allegedly told her Iranian-Canadian lover that an Israeli
assassin is living in Canada under a new identity secretly provided by
the government, a senior government source said Tuesday. In a
fast-moving investigation with ties to Dubai, Venezuela, Israel,
Montreal and now Ottawa, the Mounties are trying to determine whether
national security was breached in a case that rivals a Hollywood
script. Passport Canada national security officer Trina Kennedy had
been assigned to an RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement
Team (INSET) looking into the activities of Montreal businessman Arian
Azarbar, said the source. Instead, Kennedy began an affair in 2012 with
Azarbar, 33, which lasted for about a year and a half, Azarbar said in
an interview Tuesday with the Citizen. During their romance, Kennedy is
said to have confided to him that the federal government created a
Canadian passport and new life here for a former member of Israel's
Mossad security intelligence service involved in the January 2010
assassination in Dubai of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a high-ranking member of
the terrorist group Hamas. "She was working on those cases when this
whole Mossad thing was happening," Azarbar said. "People talk." Mabhouh
was a founder and senior commander of Hamas's paramilitary wing and
believed to be the liaison between the Palestinian group and Iran for
weapons-smuggling operations into Gaza. Israel has never admitted
involvement in the killing. Kennedy has been placed on leave while
police investigate, with no access to government offices or computers,
said the source…

BEIRUT
(Reuters) - The al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed a twin
bomb attack in Beirut on Wednesday, saying such attacks would continue
until Hezbollah forces withdrew from the fighting in Syria and its own
fighters were released from Lebanese jails. The radical Lebanese group,
which claimed the attack on its Twitter account, also said it was
responsible for a November 19 attack on the Iranian embassy that killed
23 people, using the same tactic of twin suicide bombs. In both cases,
most of the victims were civilians. Hezbollah is a powerful Shi'ite
Muslim political and militant group in Lebanon that is funded by Iran.
The group has sent hundreds of fighters to neighboring Syria, giving a
boost to its ally President Bashar al-Assad against mainly Sunni rebels
seeking to topple him…

15. Saudi Arabia Replaces Key Official in Effort to Arm Syria Rebels

Frustrated Kingdom Sets Out to Assuage U.S. Worries on Extremists in Three-Year Conflict

Saudi
Arabia has sidelined its veteran intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin
Sultan, as leader of the kingdom's efforts to arm and fund Syrian
rebels, replacing him with another prince well-regarded by U.S.
officials for his successes fighting al-Qaeda, Saudi royal advisers said
this week. The change holds promise for a return to smoother relations
with the U.S., and may augur a stronger Saudi effort against militants
aligned with al Qaeda who have flocked to opposition-held Syrian
territory during that country's three-year war, current and former U.S.
officials said. Prince Bandar, an experienced but at times mercurial
ex-diplomat and intelligence chief, presided over Saudi Arabia's Syria
operations for the past two years with little success, as a rift opened
up with the U.S. over how much to back rebels fighting Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad. Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who has
won praise in Washington for his counterterror work against al Qaeda in
Yemen and elsewhere, is now a main figure in carrying out Syria policy, a
royal adviser and a security analyst briefed by Saudi officials said
Tuesday. Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, Saudi King Abdullah's son and head
of the Saudi National Guard, has also assumed a bigger share of
responsibility for the kingdom's policy towards Syria, the advisers
said. A Saudi analyst who serves as adviser to top royals said the
changes signaled the kingdom would also now emphasize diplomatic means,
including outreach to and pressure on Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, the
main backers of Mr. Assad's regime…

Sharp
divisions among al Qaeda terrorists in the Middle East are continuing
despite a recent appeal by the group's top leader to heal the rift
between two warring factions. While the split within the terrorist
group behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington is
real, so far it has not diminished the threat of attack against
Americans, according to officials and counterterrorism analysts. The
divisions pit the remnants of al Qaeda's central organization and its
supporters in the Middle East and North Africa against a splinter group
known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The internal
conflict has resulted in fierce online debates, killings, and bombings
on the ground in Syria, where ISIL has attacked both fighters and
facilities belonging to the al Nusra Front, the official al Qaeda rebel
group in the Syrian conflict. ISIL continues to gain widespread
jihadist support both in the region for insurgents in Syria and Iraq as
well as from supporters worldwide. That support came despite a speech
last month by al Qaeda central leader Ayman al Zawahiri, successor to
Osama bin Laden, and a statement earlier this month by the group's
"general command" that declared the ultra-hardline ISIL was not part of
the global al Qaeda network…

CAIRO—An
Egyptian employee of the U.S. Embassy here has been detained by
authorities for more than two weeks without charges, an embassy
spokesman said on Wednesday. The arrest has raised concern among
journalists, academics and rights groups that the government's crackdown
on the Muslim Brotherhood has extended to those who had contact with
the Islamist group even before it was outlawed and declared a terrorist
organization after the ouster of one of its leaders from the country's
presidency last year. The arrest was first reported in the local
Egyptian media on Tuesday. Mofid Deak, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy,
said the employee— Ahmed Aleiba —is an Egyptian citizen who was hired
locally. But Mr. Deak declined to provide specifics on Mr. Aleiba's
role. "As far as we understand, he has been held without charges since
[Jan. 25]," Mr. Deak said in an email. "We have been in touch with the
Government of Egypt and have requested additional information about his
case." Mr. Deak noted that Mr. Aleiba wasn't on duty at the time of his
arrest…

(CNN)
-- Two American security officers have been found dead on the Maersk
Alabama container ship, police in the Seychelles said
Wednesday. Seychelles police identified them on Thursday as Jeffrey
Reynolds and Mark Kennedy. The vessel was moored at Port Victoria in
the Indian Ocean archipelago. The men, both 44, were found dead on
Tuesday. CNN first learned about the incident on Twitter. "A postmortem
will be carried out this week in order to establish the cause of their
sudden deaths," police said, adding that the police investigation is
ongoing. The Maersk Alabama was targeted by Somali pirates in an
attempted hijacking off the east coast of Africa in 2009. The 2013 film
"Captain Phillips" is based on the incident. The two men worked for
Trident Group, a Virginia-based maritime security services firm. The
company's president, Tom Rothrauff, said the men were former Navy SEALs…

WASHINGTON—Obama
administration officials said they would press for the release of Army
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only current American prisoner of war, should
negotiations with the Taliban resume. Sgt. Bergdahl was captured nearly
five years ago near his base in Afghanistan, and the U.S. has conducted
on-again, off-again talks with the Taliban in hopes of securing his
release. However, no talks have been held since last year. A video
released last month that showed Sgt. Bergdahl alive was seen by U.S.
officials as a sign that the Taliban were interested in resuming
negotiations. "Clearly, if negotiations do resume at some point, then we
will want to talk with the Taliban about the safe return of Sgt.
Bergdahl," White House press secretary Jay Carney said, declining to
discuss details. The U.S. has previously considered a trade that would
exchange detainees held at Guantanamo Bay for Sgt. Bergdahl. U.S.
officials said Tuesday they remain open to negotiations with the Taliban
and to a possible exchange.…

For
the last 12 years, U.S. Special Operations forces have repeatedly
engaged in fierce combat in Afghanistan against ruthless Taliban allies
from Chechnya, who have the same pedigree as their terrorist brethren
threatening to disrupt the Winter Olympics in Russia, current and former
commandos tell ABC News. "I'd say Chechens were a fair percentage of
the overall enemy population early in Operation Enduring Freedom,"
recalled an active-duty senior Special Operations officer, referring to
the Pentagon's name for the Afghan war, in which he was among the first
ground operatives. Since the U.S. war in Afghanistan began after
September 11, elite U.S. troops' border battles with Chechen jihadis
based in Pakistan's tribal safe havens have mostly stayed hidden in the
shadows of a clandestine conflict. Special Operations missions are
classified secret by default and rarely publicized. Chechens joining
the Taliban and al Qaeda-aligned militias stood out for their ferocity
and refusal to surrender, operators with considerable experience in
eastern Afghanistan revealed in recent interviews. "Chechens are a
different breed," a Special Forces soldier who has fought them told ABC
News…

KABUL,
Afghanistan — It started with a heat-of-the-moment comment on a
partisan television talk show, drawing an ethnic line that was bold even
by Afghan standards. "Pashtuns are the rulers and owners of
Afghanistan; they are the real inhabitants of Afghanistan," said Gen.
Abdul Wahid Taqat, a former intelligence official. "Afghanistan means
'where Pashtuns live.' " The words ignited protests in Kabul in
December. Social media erupted. To contain the uproar, President Hamid
Karzai, a Pashtun, had General Taqat arrested and chastised the news
media for trying to whip up hatred, something he said many outlets were
increasingly doing. The president warned his fellow Afghans, with their
bitter memories of ethnic conflict, of what they stood to lose: "If it
were not for the national unity of the people, you wouldn't be able to
live in Kabul for a second." More than 100,000 people died during the
civil war that followed the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan
in 1989, a conflict that broke largely along ethnic lines, among the
Pashtuns and the smaller Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek populations. Although
there has been little ethnic violence across the country lately, in
political and news media circles, nerves are raw and tempers have been
flaring…

KIEV,
Ukraine — The security authorities in Ukraine offered the first
indication on Wednesday that the deadly political violence afflicting
Kiev had spread far beyond the city limits, announcing a crackdown on
what the Interior Ministry called "extremist groups" that had torched
buildings and seized weapons nationwide. The Interior Ministry
announcement of an "anti-terrorist operation" across the country came a
day after Kiev was gripped with the most lethal mayhem since protests
erupted in November, leaving at least 25 dead including nine police
officers. The Health Ministry said that 241 people had been
wounded. The violence turned a protest encampment in Kiev's central
Independence Square into a flaming war zone that sharply escalated the
political crisis that has convulsed the former Soviet republic of 46
million for the past three months. The crisis raised East-West tensions
over Ukraine's future, with Russia denouncing the protesters as
Nazi-like coup plotters and the European Union threatening severe
sanctions against Ukrainian government leaders…

BERLIN
Feb 19 (Reuters) - German prosecutors said on Wednesday they had
arrested a German-Iranian man suspected of exporting to the Islamic
Republic goods that could be used in a weapons programme. The products
include vacuum pumps, valves and other industrial products that can be
used for civil or military purposes, Federal Prosecutors said in a
statement. The 62-year old man, arrested in the Bonn area of western
Germany on Tuesday, is suspected of acquiring almost 230,000 euros worth
of goods made in Germany or in other states for Iran between 2011 and
2013… The goods were sent to an organisation in Iran that is responsible
for a military residual propellant weapons programme and which has
since 2007 been subject to an embargo, said prosecutors…

STAVANGER,
Norway (AP) — Police in Norway say they have charged a man with terror
offenses allegedly committed in Syria — the first such case in the
Scandinavian country. Security Police spokesman Martin Bernsen said
Thursday that the 22-year-old man of Pakistani background was arrested
Friday on his return to Oslo from Syria. The suspect, who was not
named, has been charged under laws forbidding Norwegian citizens from
supporting or joining terror groups. Local media widely report he is
being investigated in connection with terror groups linked to al-Qaida…

23. The British female terror groupies queuing up to marry jihad fighters in Syria

Dozens of British women are thought to have travelled to Syria to marry

Some believe English-speaking jihadists are leading the 'perfect life'

An
increasing number of British women are travelling to war-torn Syria to
marry jihadists from the UK, with some seeing them as leading a 'perfect
life'. Many are thought to be marrying jihadists on the internet, as
strict Islamic code forbids unmarried women to travel alone, according
to researchers at the International Centre for the Study of
Radicalisation at King's College, London. Exact numbers are difficult
to pinpoint, but the research centre believes that dozens of British
women have married English-speaking jihadists – or are trying to -
according to chatter that it monitors on forums. It knows of two women
from Portsmouth, one from London and one from Surrey who definitely have
married English-speaking men fighting for opposition forces. It said
that one is a convert and that two were married prior to departure, with
the other two marrying on arrival in Syria. Women from other countries
have also gone to Syria to be with jihadists - two from France, who
both married jihadists before they left for the war, one from Sweden,
one from Serbia, one from the Philippines and one from Germany. What
gives away the women's intentions are the questions they pose to the
fighters...

Police search home of Manchester man believed to have been killed in Syria

Man named locally as 20-year-old student Anil Khalil Raoufi, whose family had moved to Britain from Afghanistan in 2004

The
home of a 20-year-old man in Manchester believed to have been killed
fighting in Syria was being searched by counter-terrorism police on
Thursday. Neighbours said the man, named locally as Anil Khalil Raoufi,
was an amateur boxer and had been studying mechanical engineering at a
university in the north-west. The family had moved to Britain from
Afghanistan 10 years ago and would usually make annual trips back there,
they said. It is thought that the father runs two restaurants in
Rusholme, dubbed Manchester's "Curry Mile"…

British jihadist warns life is hard in Syria and hundreds return to UK

The
fanatic says "fighting for real" is more difficult than people think
and being a jihadist is not just getting a gun and beard

A
British fanatic in Syria has warned would-be jihadists that fighting in
the war-torn country is "more difficult than people think". The
unidentified man said being a Muslim warrior was more than just putting
on a "tactical vest and grab a Kalashnikov and get a big beard". He
also attacked the image that Syria was a "five star jihad" following
reports by other fanatics that boasted of staying in villas and
mansions. The warning raises the prospect that hundreds of Britons who
are believed to have returned to the UK may have found it too hard in
Syria and now plan to carry out attacks here instead. It is feared as
many as 250 British jihadists are now back in the UK having fought in
Syria…

24. Killers
of Lee Rigby set to be handed full-life sentences after Appeal Court
judges rule life CAN mean life for Britain's most notorious murderers

The Muslim converts who murdered Lee Rigby are set to be handed whole-life tariffs after

senior
judges agreed today that Britain's most notorious killers can be given
indefinite sentences. Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22,
were found guilty of executing the 25-year-old soldier, but their
sentencing was delayed until after a crucial Court of Appeal ruling this
morning. Today, in a victory against the European Court of Human
Rights, the country's leading judges agreed that whole-life sentences
were legal in 'heinous' cases. In December Mr Justice Sweeney said he
would delay the decision to jail Drummer Rigby's killers until after the
ruling, so he could have the option of jailing the pair for life
without parole. They will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Wednesday
February 26 at 2pm, a Judicial Office spokeswoman confirmed
today. Today's decision came on the back of legal appeals, funded by
the taxpayer, by a small group of sadistic killers whose crimes were
deemed so appalling they were told they must spend the rest of their
lives behind bars…

Khaled
Abu Toameh, an Arab Muslim, is a veteran award-winning journalist who
has been covering Palestinian affairs for nearly three decades. He
studied at Hebrew University and began his career as a reporter by
working for a PLO-affiliated newspaper in Jerusalem. Abu Toameh
currently works for the international media, serving as the 'eyes and
ears' of foreign journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

We are hypocrites and cowards - we take freedom for granted as it is eroding underneath our feet‏

Message to offended Muslims

A GOOD, TRUE STORY NOT KNOWN BY MANY.....Air Force.

The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

What happened?

Mark Hasten Tribute Video Touro College

Housing Quiz

The Record-so far...!

CBS special on Bengazi

Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare

Sally Nelson

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

Islamization on the move

"What we are dealing with is Islamization. Islamization is the imposition of ideological norms in increasing severity. Like Nazification, it transforms a society by remaking it in its own image from the largest to the smallest of details."Daniel Greenfield

Toronto rejects Anti-Israel Ads...

Shrinking Lands

Why Israel opposes international forces in the jordan valley/

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Islam is Islam, And That’s It

Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading and annotating this video: View video at http://gatesofvienna.net/

There's no racist like a liberal racist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vz4PjxSmtoI

Ex-Navy SEAL Drops Bombshell On FOX: Says Government is Creating Conditions to Impose Martial Law R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDuds14OBiE#t=156

American surprise

The Nairobi Mall Massacre

Ninh Chu Ninh Chu

Islam Untied

Platitudes about Islam being a faith of peace are not credible anymore. Islam is only as good as the way its followers practice it; and if they have created killing fields in the name of Islam, then Islam will be recognized by the silence of those who did not speak out when their faith was being massacred to massacre humanity.

AFTERBURNER w/ BILL WHITTLE: The Lynching

What-are you against peace?

Sydney Wake Up The Horrific Muslim Infiltration Of Britain - Luton

Kerry: 'Core Issue of Instability ... Is the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict'‏

Kerry is no friend. By endorsing the "Arab peace initiative" he shows his true intentions and beliefs . And by endorsing linkage he shows that he is either a liar or a fool.Syria is on fire, Egypt is at best incredibly unstable and this is due to Israel? It is out in the open!

A word to left-wing students

In their own words-ru listening?

"The lesson these Islamist groups appear to be drawing from events in Egypt is that democratic engagement with opponents is pointless. And that doesn't bode well for countries with strong Islamist movements..."

Flashback: Obama Admits He Cut Medicare

Another Democratic slogan blown to h....

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

When nations and cultures ignore the early warning signs of the infiltration of radical Islam

The UK has 85 sharia courts. France has over 750 “no go zones,” Muslim enclaves where even French police don’t enter.

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKk15KcqNk&feature=email

No such thing as "Islamophobia"

However, if you do not want your positions challenged or criticized or even researched, make up a new "phobia"-shout it long enough and some "people", agenda driven, will use it. Ay, yes, the false term does keep many, many financially rewarded-follow the money.gs don morris, Ph.D.

Khader Adnan: Leader of Islamic jihad or innocent baker?

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.More...

Omar Barghouti's Propaganda at USC on January 12, 2012

Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’ -- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.Clare M. Lopez

Americans are opening their eyes

Advertisers fleeing All-American Muslim 'propaganda'The American people are seeing through the propaganda piece that is TLC's All-American Muslim reality/dawah show, and responsible advertisers are fleeing in droves. The show aims to combat a trumped-up problem, "Islamophobia," by presenting Muslims who are just ordinary folk, and

Why Islam is Incompatible with Western Law

Col. Allen West answers a question on muslim terror

Challah's Gaza Rocket Counter

This Month:4Last Month:191

This Year: 562

Total since 2002: 12055

Cease fire Hamas style!!

Thanks http://challahhuakbar.blogspot.com/

"Islamophobia"

"Islamophobia" was a politically manipulative coinage designed to silence critics of Islamic supremacism.It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia.

10 Unknown West Bank Facts

Liberals Redefine "Extremism" and the "Political Center"

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist.The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Don’t ever call it ‘West Bank’ again

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Who do the territories belong to?

The legal borders of Israel under international law

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror YeminiIn 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state. Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

How Liberals Argue

Hebrew Univ-you rock!!

Judea and Samaria are not "occupied" lands-why?

Judea-Samaria were not only parts of the ancient Jewish homeland but were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home recognized by San Remo and the League of Nations [1920, 1922] and by the UN charter [article 80; 1945].

"Political Correctness."

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."Texas A&M

Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul on the climate issues

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

WHAT Golda Meir actually said...

"When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist." Golda Meir June 15, 1969: Interview in the UK Sunday Times

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member